AI Inference Must Become Cheap and Ubiquitous

AI inference is currently priced and deployed as a luxury product, forcing companies to ration usage and limit deployments. But history shows that transformative technologies — electricity, broadband, cloud computing — expanded markets as costs fell, not shrank them. True AI adoption requires inference costs to drop low enough that organizations stop calculating whether each AI interaction is economically justified. Commoditization won't shrink the AI market; it will unlock new customers, workloads, and business models, shifting industry focus from raw performance benchmarks to real business outcomes like task completion and time saved.